My research focuses on policing and security governance. Across anthropology, criminology and critical security studies, I explore topics such as:
- Everyday policing
- Police reform implementation
- The role of affect in security governance and policing
- Linkages between global security threats and local police work
- The crime-terror nexus
- Counterterrorism policing
- Perceptions of safety and risk
- The politics of policing
- Urban violence
I have conducted long-term fieldwork with the police in Denmark and the Philippines across operational and strategic levels.
Besides being part of the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University, I am affiliated with the Royal Danish Defence College. My PhD is part of the research project ‘Affective Prevention: Partnership Policing and the Transformation of Urban Security Governance in Denmark’, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.
